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Saturday, July 1st, 2006 07:57 pmMy ability to concentrate hasn't been all that good lately, but I have been reading Greg Critser's book Generation Rx in bits and pieces, and have been thinking it might be an interesting exercise to create a list of every prescription drug I can remember taking before I ever got an actual diagnosis and then find out how many of those drugs were pulled from the market for safety reasons. One potential problem with this exercise is that certain medications might have damaged my heart so much that it might kill me to let myself get that pissed off.
Funny thing--I remember one of the doctors who freely prescribed one of the killer drugs shaking his head and telling me that I should stop taking magnesium supplements because they could do me harm. There are, of course, several vitamins and minerals which can be quite dangerous if you ingest much more than your daily recommended value. Excess magnesium, on the other hand, pretty much just gives you the runs.
Funny thing--I remember one of the doctors who freely prescribed one of the killer drugs shaking his head and telling me that I should stop taking magnesium supplements because they could do me harm. There are, of course, several vitamins and minerals which can be quite dangerous if you ingest much more than your daily recommended value. Excess magnesium, on the other hand, pretty much just gives you the runs.